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The isotopies of food and clothing function dialectically as signs of demarcation, boundary markers, or liminal spaces between two territories. When food is dis-tasteful, society is dys-functional. In the same way, clothing the exterior represents values the interior , but can also function as concealment the stockings pulled over the peeled feet, for instance.

By setting up these isotopies, or sets of semantic categories, Atwood both generates the text and makes a homogeneous reading of the text possible. The scattered correspondences relate to one another independently of the time-sequence of the story.

Her job is to run the washed clothes through the wringer into the laundry sink full of clean water. The descriptive pause, set up through the naive perspective of the child, triggers disturbing resonances between the wringer and the body, clothes and flesh, suds and blood, concrete and abstract, purification and mutilation, self-destruction and death, pain and oblivion, violence and a troubling peace.

The wringer is two rubber rolls, the color of pale flesh, that revolve around and around, the clothes squeezing in between them, water and suds squooshing out like juice. I poke the corners of the clothes in between the wringers and they are grabbed and dragged through, the arms of the shirts ballooning with trapped air, suds dripping from the cuffs.

I think about what would happen to my hand if it did get caught: the blood and flesh squeezing up my arm like a traveling bulge, the hand coming out the other side flat as a glove, white as paper. This would hurt a lot at first, I know that. A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book.

I have a brief intense image of Mrs. Through the distancing device of the restricted point of view and its ensuing structural irony, Atwood relates her dawning awareness of the arbitrary codes of language, and her gradual attraction to that parallel, alternate form of articulation, the visual arts.

These colors look a little dirty, like the squares in a paint box when you forget to rinse the brush. We can also note that the visible seems to belong to the domain of the tactile, that the visible and the tangible straddle or overlap in the manner posited by Berkeley in An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision.

Even in a childish experience such as that of reading the comics, the future artist not only lucidly analyzes the visual conventions of cartoons and comic strips, but interconnects the images with a total sensual experience: in this light I spread the evening paper out on the polished hardwood floor and rest on my knees and elbows, reading the comics. In the comics there are people with round holes for eyes.

Around me is the scent of newsprint and floorwax, the bureau drawer smell of my itchy stockings mingled with that of grimy knees, the scratchy hot smell of wool plaid and the cat box aroma of cotton underpants. As the young adult Elaine slowly builds up her skills, experiments with various materials and techniques, and gradually masters her craft, she describes to the reader the drawings and canvasses that she is working on.

I paint a silver toaster, the old kind, with knobs and doors. One of the doors is partly open, revealing the red-hot grill within. I paint a wringer washing machine. The washing machine is a squat cylinder of white enamel. The wringer itself is a disturbing flesh-tone pink. The act of seeing gives legitimacy to the descriptive act. Crucial to the success or failure of the ekphrasis then is our competence as descriptee, our ability to mentally represent from a verbal sequence that which is described, which, having been seen, is to be seen Hamon When picture is traded for language, and language for picture, the receiver is projected into a world of dissolved boundaries.

We can remark that the ekphrasis quoted above takes on a paratactic form that erases discursive segments whose function is to indicate relationships between syntagms. The syntactic erasure in appearance suggests a corresponding absence of ontological or logical relationships. They are not hazy around the edges, but sharp and clear.

They arrive detached from any context; they are simply there, in isolation, as an object glimpsed on the street is there. They show nothing, point to nothing beyond themselves. We see suffering. We see, or rather sense, not a washing machine or a toaster—consumer goods—, but pain and horror—sensations. We have been trained to see the sensation behind the illusion, and the illusion behind the sensation.

It is in the space created, in the dialogue between text and image that a total representation of the world can be constituted. The struggle for wholeness lies in dialectic: constant referral back and forth between two imperfect media, linguistic and iconographic, whose interaction or even conjunction produces harmony. The canvas makes us reflect upon the relationships between event and representation, between semiotic system and conceptualisation. Our perception of the signified shifts to apperception—the attainment of full awareness of a sensation or an idea, or in other words, the perception of a perception.

Her still life is set in the mind. Her other canvasses too, through their linguistic mediation, foreground the polysemy and ambivalence of words, call attention to the arbitariness of signifiers, and to the gap between signifier and referent. Down they fell, onto the men who were lying unseen, jagged and dark and without volition, far below. On the contrary, it is language as parole that gives us true access to the full meaning of their representation.

For prior to the description given above, Atwood exposes in great detail the intention that went into the painting, explicates the absences and thereby fills them by showing what is not there: There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall.

I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. The moral of the apologue is reinforced by exegetical remarks that paradoxically and ironically predate the canvas, deriving from the superimposed restricted vision of the child narrator trying to make sense of the arbitrary codes of language and thus of the world: That must be what was meant by fallen women.

Fallen women were women who had fallen onto men and hurt themselves. Fallen women were not pulled- down women or pushed women, merely fallen. The writing elaborates on and expands on the vision of the painting, and the painting synthesizes the mixture of sensations created by the writing.

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